A father has spoken of how his world came crashing down when he found out that his daughter was being sexually exploited.

To his horror, he discovered that the 14-year-old girl had been sexually abused after encouraging her to watch a video on the dangers of grooming.

The shocked father spoke out after the three men responsible were caged alongside with another man. Between them they had abused five underage girls.

His daughter had just turned 14 at the time she was sexually exploited. She was abused by Taiyab Hussain and Mohammed Rizwan over two nights. The girl was also abused by Shaheem Ratyal around the same time.

Following the incidents, her father is encouraging parents to talk to their children about the dangers of becoming a victim of grooming and sexual abuse.

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Hussain, 19, Rizwan, 18, Ratyal, now 19, along with a fourth man, Sohail Raja Ali, 19, all from Burton, have now been sentenced to a total of 17 years in a young offenders’ institution.

They appeared at Stafford Crown Court last week to be sentenced, having previously admitted a total of 22 offences involving five girls, aged just 13 and 14. The men were aged between 17 and 18 at the time of the offences.

The schoolgirl is now receiving counselling, having also had contact with Burton based SARAC (Sexual Abuse Rape Advice Centre), according to her dad.

Her father said that the last 18 months had been “absolute chaos” for the entire family.

They have also moved house. He said his nightmare began when his daughter started hanging around with friends he did not approve of.

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His world came crashing down when the family was paid a visit by Staffordshire Police informing him there had been a video posted online of his daughter, with accusations about her and her school. The video had been reported to officers, police told him.

He said: “I phoned my daughter, brought her back home and she totally denied the accusations but because of that we stopped her going around with these kids. I didn’t know that the abuse had already happened.”

Shaheem Ratyal, 19, of Grange Street, was jailed for 4 years and 4 months.

Another video of her later appeared on social media.

By then the schoolgirl was already on the police’s radar and they later sent her a special help package from the sexual exploitation team, offering advice on grooming.

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“[Receiving the package] made me think she was being affected in some way so I found a video online from a Sikh awareness group and it was a video of an Indian man talking and warning others about the dangers of grooming and I told her to watch it. When she saw the video, her attitude changed.

“She started telling me names [of the men] but nothing of what exactly had happened. We reported it to the police just two hours before the documentary Three Girls came out about grooming. The police visited the next day.”

Three Girls was a BBC three-part drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

The girl’s evidence led to the eventual arrests of the four Burton men, in June 2017. The men went on to admit charges of inciting and engaging the girls in sexual activity during the first week of their trial.

Taiyab Hussain,19, of Shobnall Street, was sentenced to five years in prison

It meant the youngsters did not need to go to court to give evidence against the defendants. In sentencing the four, Judge Jonathan Gosling said it was clear that the girls meant nothing to the men and that they were simply an “agency to satisfy their adolescent lust”.

The court heard that Hussain and Rizwan had picked the two girls up in a car and when one of the youngsters said they wanted to get out and go home, the men said the car wasn’t going anywhere until they had engaged in sexual activity with them.

Ratyal also admitted sexual activity with the father’s young daughter, with the judge telling him: “I have no doubt you thought she was easy prey.”

He said the girl had been carefully groomed by Ratyal.

Mohammed Hizar Rizwan, 18,of Derby-Road, was given four years and four months in prison

Hussain, of Shobnall Street, worked at St George’s Park before he resigned after his arrest. He admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child, two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two charges of possession of an indecent photograph of a child. He has been sentenced to five years in a young offenders’ institution.

Rizwan, of Derby Road, admitted four counts of sexual activity with a child, one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and a charge of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He has been sentenced to four years and four months.

Ratyal, of Grange Street, who had aspirations of becoming a teacher, admitted one count of sexual activity with a child and five counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He was sentenced to four years and four months.

Ali, of Weston Park Avenue, admitted three counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity. He has been sentenced to four years.

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He said: “If I had another child and I saw a massive change in my child and they get new friends, I would trust my instinct and think something is not right.

“When we saw the press stories about the case, the stories said ‘vulnerable victims’, we said she was not vulnerable, but looking back she was.

“Now she tells me everything."

It was said in court that Ratyal had met the man’s daughter when he delivered her a pizza when she was 13, but the dad believes she may have been as young as 12 as she says he was messaging her earlier.

He said: “I don’t know the lads, but I know the damage they have caused. It is hard to describe the feeling.”